CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Bob Stewart/Xyplex CHARMIB Minutes The Character MIB Working Group held its fourth meeting at the IETF meeting in St. Louis. Attendance is falling off a bit as we near completion, but we had representatives of several terminal server companies and other interested parties. Overall, the meeting showed good consensus and resulted in the completion of the business at hand. As a result, following edits based on the meeting and a final implementation report, we are ready to submit our documents to become proposed standards. The following meeting Agenda was presented informally on the Character MIB Working Group mailing list before the meeting. Agenda o Discuss the drafts as distributed via the mailing list. - Character MIB - RS-232-like MIB - Parallel-printer-like MIB o Discuss implementations. o Recommend drafts for advancement to proposed standard. The group pointed out minor editorial errors in all three documents. We discussed the necessity of common values for types of hardware flow control and decided to let simple practicality win over architectural purity, adding values for CTS/RTS and DTR/DSR to the Character MIB flow control types. After considerable discussion about including flow-control characters in the Character MIB's port character counts, we decided to leave them included but qualify the counts to be ``detected'' characters. We discussed and approved the overall changes adding a synchronous group to the RS-232 MIB. We decided to differentiate between frames short-terminated due to aborts and those interrupted by modem signal 1 changes. We discussed the implementation and operational cost of signal change counts in the RS-232 and Parallel MIBs and decided to leave them in pending an implementation report. We agreed that all objects with ``Err'' in the name should have ``Errs'' instead. The only implementation in progress is being done by Xyplex for inclusion in a product this year. It is near completion and will provide the first implementation test. Pending satisfactory edits and the completed implementation, the group agreed to recommend all three documents for advancement as proposed standards. Attendees Charles Bazaar bazaar@emulex.com Christopher Bucci bucci@pluto.dss.com Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com Tom Grant grant@xylogics.com Frank Kastenholz kasten@asherah.clearpoint.com Kenneth Key key@cs.utk.gdy Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com David Perkins dave\verb+_+perkins@3com.com Dean Throop throop@dg-rtp.dg.com 2